Man in a club goes to chat up stunning looking woman and she is just about ready to reciprocate when he realises she smells of smoke. Disgusted he makes a quick escape, leaving the lady looking confused.

Quite apart from the fact that if you step foot inside ANY club in this country YOU will begin to smell of smoke - at what point in the history of humanity has any man turned down sex with a ridiculously attractive woman because she has a smoking habit?

smoking sales will never really plummet - I think there will be rebellion against it and kids will always start or try it - I hope when I have kids they at least give it a go - anything you repress they're likely to want to do more etc etc

Still a bad habit but I'm not going to preach good or bad about it as its such a BORING ARGUMENT

There's no point in telling smokers this stuff, everyone knows smoking is bad and simply saying "smoking makes your cock not work" won't help people stop. They need to work on something that helps smokers give (gum/patches don't work)

but if death, heart disease, high costs, people not liking being in the same room as you, and smelling like a tramps armpit haven't put them off smoking already, they're probably pretty well set in their ways.

The government should raise the taxes on them dramatically, and also raise the import duties on tobacco to disuade supply.

is that if cigarette sales dramatically decreased, the income lost from taxation on cigarettes would be far more than that currently spent on treating smoking-related illness by the NHS/lost working days due to smoking-related illness. hmm, it doesn't make sense.

paid by the NHS to continually make negative comments about smoking on here?

i think you'll find it's an individual decision as to whether or not we smoke. we're informed of the dangers any time we buy tobacco or cigarettes and are paying for our healthcare with the awe-inspiring amount of tax paid on every tobacco product.

as a non-smoker yourself, someone that couldn't legally buy them and has never been a smoker, what right do you have to come here acting like a 'big man' looking down on everyone who smokes, proclaiming the government's bully tactics as 'great'?

If you read it again, you'll notice that no opinions are expressed (other than the fact that I think targetting means biggest fear/ego is a good way of getting what they want.
By "great" I mean "cunning example of advertising".

And no, the NHS dont pay me. If anything, I pay for them, in FAT TAX from all the sweets I buy with my pocket money, cos ya know, im not old enough to buy ciggies yet.